Interesting question and perspective. I would think it might be high. Often engineers and accountants do not interact a lot with people at work versus the amount of time they spend on their immediate tasks. Which means they are task-oriented professions. To that we may want to add computer programmers, auto technicians or almost any technician to the list. Task oriented people are probably more likely to analyze, tinker, adjust, and modify things.

But I am sure we have a lot of people-oriented members too. That is what makes this place such a treat, so many different kinds of people.

Interesting idea though. I believe I read in the interviews of cottage industry people in the blog "Hiking in Finland" that several of the major cottage companies were started by engineers including: Gossamer Gear, Six Moon Designs, Bear Paw, Trail Designs, Alpinlite Gear, and Revelate Designs. Those are all the ones I could find.

I'm a long-time perfesser and Inglich teacher and writer at a smallish liberal-arts university. I also run their astronomical observatory and sweep up afterward. I think the only thing we have in common is that we like to walk.

Right now I'm doing Geology work at a gold mine way up in the arctic circle (I can see the Northwest passage from where I work). My actual schooling is more environmental science/biology focused and I'll likely be working in that field in another year or so, but right now I'm having a hard time saying no to the money and because the 3 weeks on, 3 weeks off work schedule gives me lots of time off for hiking/outdoor rec.

Right now I'm sitting at the airport to take the first of four flights that will eventually land me at the mining camp for another 3 weeks of 12 hour days.